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Ah, yes; the old stand-by: Trot out the Inquisition and auto-da-fe.

The Inquisition and its attendant auto-da-fe were crimes of the highest order. There was and is no excuse for them, and I have ALWAYS roundly condemned them.

However, you do know, I assume, that Catholics were not the only practitioners of such terrors? Protestants matched the Catholics noose for noose and pyre for pyre. Both thought the other heretical.

And let’s not even mention islam, which has practiced with happy abandon such barbarity since its inception, and it continues to do so to this very day (at least the Christians — and I include Catholics in that, even though I know some Southern Baptists who do not consider Catholics to be Christians — have gone beyond that, at least for now).

There is enough condemnation due all the way around.